how to read a mail header

G

Guest

hi all,

the program should be able to log on to a pop mail account and need to just
read its headers and display.

any help in this regard highly apperecialted. code pref VB.NET

thankz in advance
 
K

Ken Tucker [MVP]

Hi,

I converted this c# pop3 mail class to vb.net. Maybe this will
help.

http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Art_CSharp_3

How to use

Dim mail As New Pop3Mail

mail.Connect("mail.xxxx.net", "user", "password")

For Each msg As Pop3Mail.Pop3Message In mail.List

Trace.WriteLine(DirectCast(mail.Retrieve(msg),
Pop3Mail.Pop3Message).message)

Next



The class



Imports System.Net.Sockets

Public Class Pop3Mail

Inherits System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient





Public Class Pop3Exception

Inherits System.ApplicationException


Public Sub New(ByVal str As String)

MyBase.New(str)


End Sub 'New

End Class 'Pop3Exception

Public Class Pop3Message

Public number As Long

Public bytes As Long

Public retrieved As Boolean

Public message As String

End Class 'Pop3Message

Public Overloads Sub Connect(ByVal server As String, ByVal username As
String, ByVal password As String)

Dim message As String

Dim strResponse As String

Connect(server, 110)

strResponse = Response()

If strResponse.Substring(0, 3) <> "+OK" Then

Throw New Pop3Exception(Response)

End If

message = "USER " + username + vbCr + vbLf

Write(message)

strResponse = Response()

If strResponse.Substring(0, 3) <> "+OK" Then

Throw New Pop3Exception(strResponse)

End If

message = "PASS " + password + vbCr + vbLf

Write(message)

strResponse = Response()

If strResponse.Substring(0, 3) <> "+OK" Then

Throw New Pop3Exception(strResponse)

End If

End Sub 'Connect

Public Sub Disconnect()

Dim message As String

Dim strResponse As String

message = "QUIT" + vbCr + vbLf

Write(message)

strResponse = Response()

If strResponse.Substring(0, 3) <> "+OK" Then

Throw New Pop3Exception(strResponse)

End If

End Sub 'Disconnect

Public Function List() As ArrayList

Dim message As String

Dim strResponse As String

Dim retval As New ArrayList

message = "LIST" + vbCr + vbLf

Write(message)

strResponse = Response()

If strResponse.Substring(0, 3) <> "+OK" Then

Throw New Pop3Exception(strResponse)

End If

While True

strResponse = Response()

If strResponse = "." & vbCr & vbLf Then

Return retval

Else

Dim msg As New Pop3Message

Dim seps As Char() = " ".ToCharArray

Dim values As String() = strResponse.Split(seps)

msg.number = Int32.Parse(values(0))

msg.bytes = Int32.Parse(values(1))

msg.retrieved = False

retval.Add(msg)

End If

End While

End Function 'List

Public Function Retrieve(ByVal rhs As Pop3Message) As Pop3Message

Dim message As String

Dim strResponse As String

Dim msg As New Pop3Message

msg.bytes = rhs.bytes

msg.number = rhs.number

message = "RETR " & rhs.number & vbCr & vbLf

Write(message)

strResponse = Response()

If strResponse.Substring(0, 3) <> "+OK" Then

Throw New Pop3Exception(strResponse)

End If

msg.retrieved = True

While True

strResponse = Response()

If strResponse = "." & vbCr & vbLf Then

Exit While

Else

msg.message += strResponse

End If

End While

Return msg

End Function 'Retrieve

Private Sub Write(ByVal message As String)

Dim en As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding

Dim WriteBuffer(1023) As Byte

WriteBuffer = en.GetBytes(message)

Dim stream As NetworkStream = GetStream()

stream.Write(WriteBuffer, 0, WriteBuffer.Length)

Debug.WriteLine("WRITE:" + message)

End Sub 'Write



Public Sub Delete(ByVal rhs As Pop3Message)

Dim message As String

Dim strResponse As String

message = "DELE " & rhs.number & vbCr & vbLf

Write(message)

strResponse = Response()

If strResponse.Substring(0, 3) <> "+OK" Then

Throw New Pop3Exception(strResponse)

End If

End Sub 'Delete

Private Function Response() As String

Dim enc As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding

Dim serverbuff() As Byte = New [Byte](1023) {}

Dim stream As NetworkStream = GetStream()

Dim count As Integer = 0

While True

Dim buff() As Byte = New [Byte](1) {}

Dim bytes As Integer = stream.Read(buff, 0, 1)

If bytes = 1 Then

serverbuff(count) = buff(0)

count += 1

If buff(0) = Asc(vbLf) Then

Exit While

End If

Else

Exit While

End If

End While

Dim retval As String = enc.GetString(serverbuff, 0, count)

Debug.WriteLine("READ:" + retval)

Return retval

End Function 'Response

End Class



Ken

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hi all,

the program should be able to log on to a pop mail account and need to just
read its headers and display.

any help in this regard highly apperecialted. code pref VB.NET

thankz in advance
 

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